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Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Before 1914, Georgia's senators were chosen by the Georgia General Assembly, and before 1935, their terms began March 4. Popular Senate elections remained despite the General Assembly not taking action to ratify the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution that was passed in ...
The runoff election for Isakson's former seat was on January 5, 2021. The regularly-scheduled runoff election for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat held by Republican David Perdue was also decided in a January 5 runoff. Before the Georgia runoffs in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections, Republicans held 50 Senate seats and the Democratic caucus held 48. [203]
Ossoff and Warnock became the first Democrats to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in a 2000 special election. Ossoff became the first Democrat elected to a full term in the Senate from Georgia since Max Cleland, who held this seat from 1997 to 2003, and the first Jewish member of the Senate from the state. [6]
(The Center Square) – Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram gave District Attorney Fani Willis until Jan. 13 to respond to an order that requires her to honor a subpoena from a ...
The Ayutthaya Kingdom [i] or the Empire of Ayutthaya [19] was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 [14] [20] [21] to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or present-day Thailand.
(The Center Square) – With all 56 state Senate seats up for grabs on Tuesday, Republicans maintained the majority. Republicans kept a 33-23 majority over Democrats, not losing a single seat.
Ranked choice voting in Georgia has been legal since the 2021 passage of SB 202, also known as the Election Integrity Act, which received unanimous support from Senate Republicans at the time. The ...
The United States Constitution gives the Senate the power to expel any member by a two-thirds vote. [1] This is distinct from the power over impeachment trials and convictions that the Senate has over executive and judicial federal officials: the Senate ruled in 1798 that senators could not be impeached, but only expelled, while debating the impeachment trial of William Blount, who had already ...